Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Kole

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 06:28, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mike Kole

Non-notable candidate for public office. Remove the fact he is running for office and he would easily not fit WP:BIO Wildthing61476 18:20, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

• Please Remove from Article Deletion Motion for Summary Judgement - Statements:

1. Established is 1000's of candidate Bios on wikipedia
2. links to Campaign websites
3. Article is authorized by person written about
4. Article is stubbed from long time existing Indiana Politician catagory.

Request removal from Articles for deletion at this time as precedence has already been established within the wikipedia arena.

• • Comment No. This is Wikipedia not a court room. Precedence for these types of things simply means that we've missed the others; they'll be nominated for deletion eventually. If you are going to be all "smart" about it then at least give yourself some credibility with a signature. --JCipriani 02:17, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

• Amended Coding Indiana Political Stub has been added

• Further Discussion Category:Indiana_politician_stubs is large and well established. It would appear precedence is already set and all that is needed is a redirect link from stated page. Not only are candidates listed but campaign links exist all over.

• Catagory Question As you two know far more than I on Wikipedia creation: Do I create the catagory under Indina Elections or does someone else? Just an old DOS pascalian. - Ancasta

• Notability Defense In the State of Indiana Secretary of State race. Gaining 2% of the public vote maintains ballot access for all candidates of that party (last election Mike Kole took 6% of the Vote). Which makes him notable for being the first Libertarian in the State of Indiana to maintain ballot access. Coming in second place per county makes that party one of the two major parties of that county and places that party on all County Boards (non-partisan rules). Displacing either the Republican or Democratic party. Indiana Code Title 3. Ancasta

• • Question Which counties has Mr. Kole come in second in? Has he actually displaced either the Democrats or Republicans in any county?

• Search Engine Defense In the Month of June, 2006 'Kole' was searched 3003 times. Determined by Keyword tool by overture.

• • Question How many of them were for Mike Kole? There is also a DC Comic book character "Kole" and some other misc. hits.

• Comment To add to my nomination, this entire article is a cut & paste from www.mikekole.com, which would also violate Wikipedia's copyvio policy. Wildthing61476 18:42, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

• • Comment I have vocal authortity from Mr.Kole to bio him. If you wish to verfiy that I can give you his cell phone number. Ancasta...
    • Comment Wikipedia is not to be used as a campaign platform. There have been numerous other articles removed for the same reason. If he was to win the election, then by all means he would be worthy.Wildthing61476 18:50, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment I humbly appologize for the candidate inclusion. All references have been removed and no links to web sites suggesting such is in the article. That said: I would think that anyone on a ballot of the 3rd largest political party in the U.S.A and subject to many newspaper articles in regard to his life and comments would be notable.

• Delete He's not even a candidate. He is the local party chair. As a staunch Libertarian myself, I know that usually means that you took a potty break when they nominated and voted on the chair. Not notable. Dipics 18:29, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

• Don't Delete He is a candidate if you look up Indiana SOS candidates. He is very notible in Hamilton County, IN and and important person to the public in Central Indiana. Candidate references have been removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ancasta (talk • contribs) 18:34, 28 July 2006

• Comment The above's author has only posted to this AfD and the article nominated. Wildthing61476 18:36, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

• Comment Everyone has to have a Day One begining.

• Comment I stand (actually sit) corrected. I think that the best solution here would be a redirect to the as-yet-unwritten article on the S.O.S. election in Indiana. As per Wikipedia:Candidates and elections, elections first, then candidates. And, while I know nothing about this specific election and am a Libertarian myself, I strongly suspect that Mr. Kole will poll in the low-to-mid single digits. Not notable enough for an article but a good candidate for a redirect. Dipics 19:16, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Question So would 'Indiana Secretary of State Election' be more acceptable? - Ancasta
    • Comment In my opinion, that would be a good way to handle this. Then all the candidates could be listed on that page and possibly redirects under their names to that page. Dipics 20:34, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
      • Redress See top of this page. Indiana Politicans catagory already well establish and this article is linked to it.

• Delete seems like a nice man. Unfortunately, I don't see him meeting WP:BIO. Sorry -- Samir धर्म 19:52, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. This is an encyclopedia, not a who's-who. Akradecki 21:44, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Britanica Encyclopedia's are a Whos-Who and an Event tracker and a dictionary of sorts. - Ancasta
• Delete The argument for keeping him seems to be that there are other politicians on Wikipedia. This is not a good reason. I don't see this candidate as notable. Beaner1 01:16, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
• Strong delete, this article reads like a campaign ad. The worst part? "Article authorized by Mike Kole". --Coredesat talk. ^_^ 01:41, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

• Strong Keep Article authorized to express not a FAKE! With 1000's of other notable people that are currently and have been on ballots - to single one out is prejudice.
  • Comment Prejudice? Speaking only for myself, I didn't prejudge anything. I knew nothing about this person before I read the article in question. It may seem random or arbitrary but prejudice has nothing to do with it. And, it is the notability of the subject that is in question, not whether or not he is on a ballot. Dipics 12:52, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. The existence of other articles that break guidelines is not a reason to break them again. --Dhartung | Talk 02:05, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete or possibly merge to an article on Indiana Secretary of State Election (2006). (Or possibly delete under the WikiLawyer clause.) — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 02:15, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Encyclopedias are not for campaign ads. Agree with Coredesat.--JCipriani 02:21, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Candidacy alone does not warrant inclusion. The other accomplishments listed also do not warrant inclusion. Wikipedia is run by guidelines, not by precedent. There may be numerous articles for other candidates, but most of them are also up for deletion for failing to meet guidelines. The article reads like a campaign ad, which would violate WP:SPAM as well. Wikipedia is not free ad space. It does not exist to be used as a campaign tool. The 'Article Authorized by Mike Kole' is the clincher. It is strong evidence that the article is being vetted by the campaign, which would fail WP:VAIN. --DarkAudit 02:23, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.